In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to address the fact that there was no single recognized driver to direct UN activities on gender equality issues. This had come at a critical period for...

Women are faced with significant barriers to gender equality especially around finances, employment, education, unpaid care-work and gender-based violence, yet the pandemic further compounded this. The Generation Equality Forum was conceived to address the challenges faced by women and girls...

In Uganda, one of the world’s youngest populations, the government adopted the National Development Plan III and from this the UN adopted the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework to support its implementation.  The last two years saw sharp spikes in the cases of domestic violence...